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Turning the weapons of the bureaucracy against itself, Steinberg matches his rubber stamps with handwriting that extends across sky or building, looking like it came from some eighteenth century document and consistently unreadable. The dollar bill and the Great Seal of the Treasury dissolve under Steinberg's pen into the pyramids, flanked by sphinxes with the heads of businessmen, and the floating eye, which hangs above passing teeny boppers...
...these policies were put into effect with a stroke of the presidential pen. But many other recommendations in Nixon's energy message depend on congressional action. Most important is a measure that strikes at the root cause of present natural-gas shortages-the regulatory system. Federal regulation has artificially held down gas prices, thereby increasing demand while decreasing incentives for exploration for new reserves. Nixon proposes to remove all "new" natural gas from those price ceilings...
Meanwhile son Danny is wreaking havoc with the reporters He has comandeered a pen and a notebook and is recording his own impressions of the whole scene. Someone rolls a yellow Spalding tennis ball over and he picks it up and throws it at the refreshmen table...
...decamped to the Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more with his pen than mumble, groan, and bump through the motions of sex and stoned-out soliliquies...
Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...